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Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWith two Command Rifle Teams, one 60mm mortar team & two 81mm mortar teams.A French Compagnie de Fusiliers-Voltigeurs relies on the leadership of its officers. Have faith in your company commander and everything will be all right.On 5 May 1940, France fielded 71 infantry divisions. Of these 20 were active divisions—seven motorised Divisions d’Infanterie Motorisée (DIM), ten Divisions d’Infanterie (DI) marching on foot with horse-drawn supporting weapons, three were mountain Divisions d’Infanterie Alpine (DIA), and eight were colonial—four Divisions d’Infanterie Coloniale (DIC) and four North African Divisions d’Infanterie Nord-Africaine (DINA). The remaining 43 divisions were all reservists. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late Warwith one Command Rifle Team, one VB team & six Rifle/MG teams.The infantry are the backbone of the French army, whether it is the dashing troops of the Fusiliers Portés or the staunch Fusiliers-Voltigeurs. Comes with an HQ stand, 3 squads and VB team, and Rifle/MG or MG options.The section de fusiliers-voltigeurs (fusiliers-voltigeurs platoon) is another example of the French infantry’s perfect organisation for trench warfare. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late WarWith four HMGs with crew & Command Rifle team The Hotchkiss Mle 1914 became the standard heavy machine-gun of the French Army during World War One when it broke German attacks as they advanced across No Man’s Land. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late WarWith four mortars with crew, Observer team & Command Rifle team. Almost every mortar used by every nation in the Second World War (and since) was essentially derived from the outstanding Brandt mle 27/31 (introduced in 1927 and updated in 1931) mortar. Even its 81.4mm calibre became the European standard used by both Allied and Axis forces More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWith one Company Command Rifle team, one 2iC Command Rifle team, two 81mm mle 27/31 mortars with crew, one 60mm mle 35 mortar with crew, two Small bases & three Medium bases. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWith one Command Rifle/MG team, one VB team, six Rifle/MG team, one Small base & seven Medium bases.The state of the French troops in the Vichy Levant was not too dissimilar to mainland France. While the majority of troops were made up of locally raised Levantine conscripts, the Army of the Levant was stiffened with several well trained regiments of Moroccan, Senegalese, and Algerian troops. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWith one Command Rifle team, six 8mm mle 1914 HMG teams, one Small base & four Medium bases.With the mortar platoon, the machine-gun platoons of each battalion’s fourth company provide close support to the Infantry, Vichy or Gaullist. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWith one Command Rifle team, one Observer Rifle team, four 81mm mle 27/31 mortars with crew, one radio, two Small bases & four Medium bases.The 81mm mle 27/31 mortar is the basis of every 80-82mm mortar in use in every other army in World War II. These are especially useful in the mountainous regions of Lebanon and Syria where mobility is top priority More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early Warincludes one Command Pioneer Rifle team, three Sapper Squads (two Pioneer Rifle teams per squad), one Small base & six Medium bases. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late WarThe tales of the Arabian Nights create a vision of a dark desert warrior dressed in flowing robes and a turban. In the cool desert night, he silently infiltrates across the front lines and slits his enemy's throat while they sleep. This appropriately describes the ruthless Goumier warriors of Morocco. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late WarShort, dark-skinned, and bearded, a Goum warrior is lean, wiry, and indifferent to the elements. Their keen eyesight made them good marksmen and their koumia, a short curved knife, was vicious in close combat. They wore their traditional black, brown, and white striped djellaba (a long, loose-fitting outer robe) and a turban with a small ponytail protruding so Allah could lift them to heaven when their task was complete. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Late WarWith five Rifle teams & Weapon team upgrades.The Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur, or French Forces of the Interior (FFI) was the military arm of the French resistance movement. More...Related products:
Army: FrenchPeriod: Early WarWhen the German tanks crossed the Polish frontier, Colonel Charles de Gaulle, commander of the tanks of the Fifth Army, saw the German success in this campaign as vindicating the theories outlined in his book, The Army of the Future, published five years earlier. The forceful expression of his opinions on the failings of the French hierarchy and the need for more French armoured divisions antagonised the upper echelons of the French military. More...Related products:
